Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Deep autoencoder for interpretable tissue-adaptive deconvolution and cell-type-specific gene analysis

  • Yanshuo Chen,
  • Yixuan Wang,
  • Yuelong Chen,
  • Yuqi Cheng,
  • Yumeng Wei,
  • Yunxiang Li,
  • Jiuming Wang,
  • Yingying Wei,
  • Ting-Fung Chan,
  • Yu Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34550-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Traditional bulk sequencing data lack information about cell-type-specific gene expression. Here, the authors develop a Tissue-AdaPtive autoEncoder (TAPE), a deep learning method connecting bulk RNA-seq and single-cell RNA-seq, and apply it to analyze the cell type fractions and cell-type-specific gene expression in clinical data.